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"It is Nature's indifference that makes her both marvelous and fearsome. Her consistency gives me a sense of security, every time I return I see she's faithful not to change. Yet I know it's not for me alone that she remains a sanctuary for the human soul."—John Muir
I spent a week in the Gila with 7 veterans and two NOLS instructors. Mostly strangers to each other, we risked spending a week in close quarters in the middle of Gila Wilderness together. I'm pretty sure this kind of thing is the premise for many reality TV shows. You know, from Lord of the Flies to Lost, put a bunch of strangers together on an Island and watch what happens. But, in this case, instead of petty drama rooted in selfishness, there was grace and understanding. We not only survived our time in the Gila, we came out more alive than ever.
One participating veteran's friend doubtingly inquired, "You're going to spend a week in the wilderness with a bunch of strangers?" To which he responded, "Yeah, it'll be fine, they're veterans." It's this attitude that made each willingly risk to eat, sleep, lead, follow, and learn for a week in a completely unfamiliar environment.
It was a perfect combination, this pre-existing trust and the indifference of Nature. We spent almost every waking hour together working at the simple tasks involved in outdoor living. The best hours were on trail, I felt like with each step and breath I let go of some city worry. By the time we peaked McKnight Mountain on the third day, I felt light as air. I was thriving in the current moment, soaking in the scenery. Although sitting on top of the mountain was definitely a highlight in my year, it was a mere moment in the life of the seemingly ageless McKnight Mountain.
For how "social" our lives are, being in constant communication with everyone through Facebook, Twitter, etc, our few days in the wilderness seemed more social than any in the city ever could be. Why do I say this? Without the constant distraction of checking into some virtual world, we were at ease to actually get to know each other. We told stories about our lives, our friends, and ourselves. I certainly laughed more in that week than I had all together in months. A day on the trail seemed so long and full because I was present in every moment. It felt great to forget what day it was. When we weren't talking or laughing, we were met with wide-open spaces on all sides and a penetrating silence that encouraged contemplation.
During the week in the Gila, I think we all got to know each other better than we could in a week in the city. Most of our group, when asked why they go outdoors, said, "The camaraderie." I agree, the wide open sky and lack of distraction press us to be present to Nature and the people we are with.
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text: Okay, this one might be a bit of a difficult thing for some people to accept considering it involves something that few people know about, but we're going to throw caution to the wind and run wild with it. At pretty much every single Verizon retail outlet they have these little gizmos known as "Cellebrites". These Cellebrites are used by Verizon employees to transfer customers data from phone to phone. And gee whiz, would you guess what two devices have popped up in the latest update for the Cellebrite? If you guessed the Motorola A855 Sholes/Shules/Droid/Tao and the Calgary A555, you'd be bang on. Mmm hmm. And of course you know what this means, right? Yes indeed, we might soon be treated to some official details of the already accidentally/on-purpose leaked devices. Hit the jump or some more pics of the now celebrated Cellebrite.


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After throwing his first NFL pass in last weekend's win, Oakland Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor could see increased playing time Sunday against the Carolina Panthers.
"You'll see him a little bit on third downs, you'll see him maybe in the red zone, try to create a different look for the defense to contend with," Raiders offensive coordinator Greg Knapp said Thursday, via The Associated Press. "It won't be so much the structure of last week, where he had a series, which we thought was fair to him."
The former Ohio State star was 0-1 on his one series last week, after being ill before the game.
The Raiders selected Pryor in the third round of the 2011 NFL Supplemental Draft, and he has spent much of this week imitating Panthers quarterback Cam Newton in practice.
"Right now I don't want to compare myself to (Colin) Kaepernick or Cam or any of those guys because them guys and Griffin have proved it," Pryor said this week, via The AP. "I haven't proved anything. I can't really say I'd be like them."
Pryor's footwork, mechanics and pocket presence were question marks, as were off-the-field concerns when he left college early in the midst of Ohio State's scandal.
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His athleticism, however, clearly is at the NFL level. In a preseason game against the Detroit Lions, Pryor flashed some of his potential: big passing plays -- 137 yards and two touchdowns on just three completions -- and running rampant over backup players. Of course, it was only the preseason, but the raw ability is there.
Raiders coach Dennis Allen is bringing along Pryor slowly, which will irritate some fans, who, with the season lost, would like to see what the quarterback could do full time.
The Raiders know what they have in Carson Palmer. If Pryor succeeds in his limited role Sunday, he could warrant more time in the season finale as Allen enters his first full offseason an NFL head coach.
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Already established as an amp manufacturer, Daniel began producing guitars at the request of the Sears department store in 1954. Sears was looking for an inexpensive but well-made guitar to snag the young/skint who couldn´t stretch their budget to a Gibson, Fender or Gretsch.
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The company´s two most popular models are the 1956 single-cutaway U2 and the doublecut 1959 Shorthorn. The latter became a stone classic the moment Jimmy Page used a black example onstage with Led Zeppelin in the late-60s. Unfortunately, this wasn´t enough to halt the declining fortunes of Danelectro, and the company folded in 1969.
While the first wave of Dano reissues launched in 1998 closely echoed the spec and aesthetics of the original guitars (Coke bottle headstock, rosewood bridge saddle, vinyl body tape), the pimped 2006 Pro range was an attempt to update Nathan´s old classic by adding a six-saddle intonatable bridge, dropping the tape and tweaking the headstock.
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Michael Bisping and Jason "Mayhem" Miller will meet as coaches on season 14 of The Ultimate Fighter
Two of mixed martial arts' most compelling figures are unquestionably Michael "The Count" Bisping and Jason "Mayhem" Miller, with both garnering more media attention than practically anyone in the middleweight division. The two 185-pound contenders have proven they can fight at the elite level of the sport as well.
But can they coach?
Bisping answered that question as he led two of his fighters to victory on season nine of The Ultimate Fighter. Now it's Miller's turn to prove himself against the brash Brit when they collide as coaches on season 14 of The Ultimate Fighter, which begins filming next month in Las Vegas.
Manchester's Bisping, winner of season three of TUF, is currently riding a three fight winning streak that includes victories over Dan Miller, Yoshihiro Akiyama, and Jorge Rivera.
California's Miller is back in the UFC after a six year absence where he fought the likes of Jake Shields, Robbie Lawler, Tim Kennedy, and "Jacare" Souza, while also gaining worldwide fame for his stint as host of MTV's "Bully Beatdown." In his most recent bout, in September of 2010, he submitted Japanese legend Kazushi Sakuraba, and now he has his sights on Bisping both in the gym and in the Octagon.
Miller's originally scheduled July bout against Aaron Simpson at UFC 132 has been canceled. A new opponent for Simpson is currently being sought.
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Dallas, TX – O.J. Mayo scored a game-high 30 points and Darren Collison finished with a double-double, as the Dallas Mavericks trounced the Charlotte Bobcats, 126-99, on Saturday.
Mayo shot 10-of-17 from the field and drained a career-high seven 3-pointers, while Collison totaled 18 points and 10 assists, as the Mavericks bounced back after a loss to the Utah Jazz on Wednesday.
Vince Carter and Chris Kaman each made solid contributions of the bench for Dallas. Carter scored 18 points, shooting 7-of-12, and Kaman added 12 points in the victory.
Ramon Sessions led Charlotte with 22 points off the bench. After a career-high scoring night in Friday's season opener, Kemba Walker scored just 10 points on 4-of-10 shooting for the Bobcats, who have never beaten the Mavericks in 16 tries.
Byron Mullens and Brendan Haywood each posted double-doubles for the Bobcats in the setback. Mullens finished with 16 points and 10 rebounds while Haywood, who played for Dallas the last two seasons, scored 14 points and pulled down a game-high 11 rebounds.
"I was just trying to be active on the offensive boards," said Haywood. "I had a couple of post-ups early in the second half. My teammates did a good job of finding me."
The leading scorers for both teams each poured in 16 points in the first half.
Mayo had a strong first quarter, while Sessions did most of his damage in the second. With 3:21 to play in the first, Mayo hit a free throw to finish a three-point play after he was fouled driving to the basket, and then drained a 3-pointer on the Mavericks' next possession to build an 11-point lead for Dallas.
Trailing by 12 to start the second period, Sessions helped bring Charlotte back, scoring on a running jumper and then a layup just over two minutes in to cut the deficit to three. With 7:48 remaining in the quarter, he banked a jump shot to give the Bobcats a 36-35 advantage.
But Dallas reclaimed the lead late in the quarter, finishing on a 9-0 run highlighted by a pair of 3-pointers. Mayo drained the first one and Collison hit the latter as the second quarter clock expired, giving the Mavericks a 61-53 halftime lead.
Mayo powered the Mavericks in the third as well, with the help of Carter. They each drained 3-pointers around a Mullens shot from beyond the arc to give Dallas a 15-point advantage with just under seven minutes left in the third.
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They maintained a double-digit lead for the rest of the game and twice led by as many as 28 points in the final quarter.
"They did a great job of finding the open man against our defense," Bobcats coach Mike Dunlap said. "I think it was probably a hybrid combination of us getting a little fatigued in terms of what we were doing, and their excellence in execution."
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Dallas is the only team with a perfect record against the Bobcats and is the only team to record 10 consecutive wins against them ... Dallas coach Rick Carlisle recorded the 200th win of his coaching career ... The Mavericks shot an incredible 64 percent from beyond the arc and converted 61.3 percent overall from the field ... After seven lead changes in the first half, Dallas never trailed in the third or fourth quarters.


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I recently came across an article entitled 25 Scary Facts About Brainwashing.
While it was certainly in interesting read, the article is primarily focused on individual cases of a person showing signs of having been brainwashed...such as the famous Patty Hearst case.
However, when one considers the various points made in the article, and apply them to our socially engineered society as a whole...I think it's more than obvious that we do in fact live in a society that has been brainwashed en masse.
For instance...look at the various methods and techniques employed to brainwash the individual, than realize that in fact some of them can certainly be applied in the dissemination of propaganda through the mainstream media as a means of brainwashing our entire society.
Repeated confrontation: The repeated confrontation method supposedly serves to "break down a person's resistance, expose poor habits, and allow the person to start over with correct methods and new goals,"
This seems like the most commonly used technique in the various forms of -isms, all employed to get people to "start over with correct methods and new goals." Liberal-ism, environmental-ism, femin-ism...all based on continually"confronting" the people with their crimes by association to get them to fall into the "correct" way of thinking and doing things. Mass media and public education continually hammer their themes home into our consciousness, over and over again. The multitude of portrayals of incompetent, moronic fathers in entertainment and commercials; the constant normalization of homosexuality; SAVE THE PLANET...GO GREEN; the perpetuation of racism and class envy...all these themes that literally saturate our culture and institutions are no doubt all apart of the social engineers implementing the "repeated confrontation" method.
Education and re-education: Before the term brainwashing was introduced, the same techniques and effects were referred to as "re-education," in the U.S. and[sic] in the Soviet Union especially.
People like Charlotte Iserbyt and John Taylor Gotto have written extensively on this particular point.
Brainwashing is especially effective during times of transition: During times of major social, political or personal transition, the brain is most vulnerable to brainwashing.
In hindsight, I can certainly see how I myself fell for the whole "war on terror" spiel after watching 9/11 coverage. By taking everything reported on in the media at face value, not questioning the official storyline, and buying into this concept of "you're either for us or against us" mentality, I voted for Bush, and joined the chorus of right wingers that jeered and dismissed any and all voices of dissent in the rush to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, justify torture, and the loss of civil liberties. Mass brainwashing is in fact most effective when coupled with huge social political events. While 9/11 serves as the most high profile case study here, the most recent one can certainly be seen in analyzing the mass brainwashing that took place to get Barack Obama elected President. HOPE AND CHANGE WE CAN BE BRAINWASHED TO BELIEVE IN!
Guilt, confession and shaming techniques: Making victims feel guilty or shameful for putting faith in their original convictions, lifestyle, or family and friends is an effective technique for forcing them to accept new ideas.
This goes hand in hand with my prior comment on the first technique, repeated confrontation. This is how people are conditioned to accept the lies of all the false ideologies...the -isms.
Confinement and isolation: Keeping victims confined and away from the people and environments that are familiar to them breaks down resistance and is a technique often used to brainwash individuals.
This is why college has become the primary institution for brainwashing the masses into becoming politically correct, socialist and globalist minded Sheeple that vote Liberal Democrat, accept homosexuality and other deviant sexual behavior as normal, and to learn to hate their country, ethnicity and cultural heritage. At no time are people more susceptible to societal brainwashing than when they are young, inexperienced, and out away from parental, familial and community influence for the first time in their lives.
Despite torture, victims often end up feeling a bond between themselves and their captors: After accepting the new ideals of the group, victims will also accept their treatment and even feel bonded and loyal to their captors.
Heh...does this not describe the typical liberal socialist progressive singing the praises of the Government as the best means of "fixing" society?
Mystical Manipulation: This mind control technique is used to convince victims that their captors or leaders experience divine intervention. Supposedly spontaneous "magic" or spiritual-like experiences will occur, making the brainwashers seem more powerful and truthful, but it is actually an orchestrated plan designed to trick victims.
Heh...kinda like the mainstream media's deification and sycophancy of Barack Obama, eh? 8 months in, and we are certainly seeing more and more evidence accumulate that Obama most certainly "tricked" the victims into selling himself as the cure all for what ails America.
Purity and perfection: Brainwashers and cult groups force victims to become converts who wholly accept and support the ideals of the group. The group is considered the only true way to become pure and good, and members must always strive for perfection.
Follow the mainstream dictates of political correctness, and you too can become an environmentally conscious, diverse, multicultural, global citizen who is least likely to commit the thought-crimes of racism, homophobia, patriotism, and misogyny!
Time control: Psychologist Margaret Singer lists time control as an effective brainwashing or mind control technique, which requires that manipulators or cult leaders monitor and designate the way victims spend their time, including what they think about at any given moment.
While this method has been employed in an almost imperceptible manner on society as a whole, nevertheless, evidence of this it most certainly noticeable if you take a step back and look at the big picture.
Just as an example, look at feminism: women were steered towards pursuing careers and financial independence, instead of getting married, bearing and raising children. This has certainly influenced the majority of women how they should spend their time.
And the many consequences that have also come from this engineered change in cultural norms have manifest in ways that also dictate how we all spend our time.
The double income/no-children household, as well as the proliferation of single mother households subsidized by Government welfare programs has all played major factors in driving up the cost of housing to the point in which anyone that hopes to own their own house, has to tie themselves to a 30 year debt obligation. This certainly dictates how a homeowner spends his or her time for at least three decades!
Ideals and beliefs are viewed as black and white: There is no room for debate, analysis or questioning when brainwashing. A victim must completely accept any new ideas and wholly reject any competing beliefs, lifestyles, people or experiences.
Climate Change...War on Terror...War on Drugs...Gender Wage Gap...Her body, her choice...women have always been oppressed...
...the list of ideals and beliefs that are black and white are almost too numerous to list. But talking and debating with people that hold such indoctrinated beliefs easily shows this mentality. When given an indisputable point of contention that they cannot refute logically, and they refuse to even try and consider the alternate view point in the face of such evidence, rest assured, that's a good indicator that you are not arguing with a free thinking, objective, mind. No, you've just encountered one of the many millions of minds thoroughly washed into compliance with the Brave New World Order's Sheeple Programming.
Dehuminzation and demonization: Cult or group leaders may dehumanize or demonize outside people or ideas in order to make their ideas seem more like the only true, good way..
This is the primary technique for whipping up the country to support wars of foreign imperialism for corporate profits.
While I thought the article was insightful, I take issue with the final "fact" under techniques and methods:
Brainwashing is more of a pop culture phenomenon rather than a scientific fact...
Move along folks, nothing to see here. Of course you haven't been subjected to brainwashing by the Corporatist Elite media and educational establishment that sought to make you into nothing more than a mindless consumer and a human resource, to be tagged, tracked, monitored, controlled and enslaved. Brainwashing is just the fanciful fantasy of fictional screenwriters and novelists...not an actual, deliberate program used to shape your thoughts, actions and behavior! That could never happen in the real world...


text: 1. The Best of Otto Soglow's The Little King (designed by Ivan Brunetti). 2. The Best of Milt Gross (also designed by Ivan Brunetti). 3. Segar's Thimble Theatre: the pre-Popeye Years (designed by Kevin Huizenga). 4. Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse (designed by Kevin Huizenga) 5. Jimmy Frise's Birdseye Centre (designed by Joe Matt) -- a great forgotten Canadian strip. 6. Garrett Price's White Boy (designed by Dan Clowes) 7. The Best of Kate Carew (designed by Trina Robbins) 8. The Art of Chester Gould (designed by Charles Burns) 9. The Best of J.R. Williams (designed by David Collier)


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Lane finds himself intrigued by the success of Pixar:
Most of us, as we leave the theatre, can no more remember which company produced the film we just saw than we could tell you who manufactured the hand dryer in the men's room. The exception is Pixar, the only studio whose products people actively seek out. Everyone knows Pixar.
So Lane goes on a road trip, to visit Pixar, to see if he can understand what makes it special.
I'm not sure if it's because I used to work (though not for Pixar) in that same campus in "the orderly town of Emeryville,", some 15 years ago, or because, like John Lasseter, I too hail from Whittier, California, or just because I'm fascinated by what makes the difference between a good company, a great company, and a legendary company, but I too am fascinated by Pixar, and I devoured Lane's story.
Lane tours the campus, visiting both new buildings and existing ones, noting work areas, the soccer pitch, volleyball court, and pool, the open-air deck with the view of the Golden Gate Bridge, and Pixar University, which he finds intriguing:
they can finish their tasks for the day, in any department of the company, then head over to P.U. for a course in live-action moviemaking, sculpting, fencing, or whatever. "Why are we teaching filmmaking to accountants? Well, if you treat accountants like accountants, they're going to act like accountants." So said Randy Nelson, the first person to head the program, which started in 1995.
I love the way that Lane de-constructs Pixar's history by way of its art: finding in The Incredibles a critique of modern corporate America; seeing Elastigirl as embodying the changing role of women in society; noting that Up, a story about "the bonding of young and old" is produced by a company whose entire body of work is about the bonding of young and old. Lane is right to be fascinated by how all this art can emerge in a world where "none of this exists":
the storyboard? It's not there. What Larsen drew on was a digital sketch pad, and he held an electronic pen. There was no board. ... It was born and cradled in the mind of a computer, and there it lived and grew. ... there are no lenses, or none that you can hold in your palm. They are purely options on a toolbar, and you scroll between them.
Of course, the greatest art is all about creating something in your mind that isn't there.
As Lane points out, there are several aspects to the Pixar office culture that are notable. Firstly, there is the idea of serendipity, and of providing the opportunity for casual, almost accidental, encounters that lead to cross-fertilization and inspiration:
The hope is that, as you head toward storyboarding, you will bump into the woman from the art department whose craving for a Danish has lured her to the cafe, and the film on which you are both toiling will be advanced a notch as your paths intersect.
Secondly, there is the celebration of creativity, inspiration, and innovation:
The funkiest parish in the building is where the animators, a hundred and twenty in number, dwell, and where their fancies are encouraged to sprout.
And thirdly, there is the idea that Pixar is a place where you want to be, where you feel involved, engaged, and inspired:
it is a democratic initiative, whereby those who make the movie at ground level -- the animators, and other interested parties -- should get to watch the movie, and then buff it up, as they go along. No mandatory notes, no development executives, no clipboard. In short, it is the filmmakers who run the show.
All of this, together, creates that magical environment that "drives each employee at Pixar to take more pains than the next one."
Several times, Lane observes that one of Pixar's particular successes is to understand that the technology is just a tool, and that what is really important is the desire to make the perfect movie:
The same goes for Sulley's turquoise fur -- a famous test for the Pixar software engineers, who had to write new simulation programs to engender 2.3 million separate strands. But Sully isn't furry because Pixar wanted to march ahead with the technology; that was merely a happy offshoot of the task. Sully is furry because the tiny human who befriends him, Boo, needs to have something to grip as she clings, unnoticed, to his back.
Lane re-tells the famous story about John Lasseter's first showing of Luxo, Jr. at SIGGRAPH 1986:
After the screening, Lasseter watched in trepidation as Jim Blinn, a computer scientist he knew, approached. What would Blinn want to talk about: rendering algorithms? Z-buffers? Jaggies? But Blinn had only one question: "John, was the parent lamp a mother or a father?
Lane wonders whether Lasseter can truly live up to this reputation, and discovers that he does:
In the mouths of most bosses, such sentiments would be mush, or self-delusion, but Lasseter, like his movies, is there to be believed. When he talks like these, he doesn't sound like a movie supremo. He sounds like Buzz Lightyear. The key to Pixar, I came to realize, is that what it seeks to enact, as corporate policy, and what it strives to dramatize, in its art, spring from a common purpose, and a single clarion call: You've got a friend in me.
Pixar is indeed a fascinating place. It's not the only fascinating place in the world; it's arguably not even the most interesting company in the Bay Area, but they have clearly built something very very special there, and it was quite interesting to read about the company in detail.


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For most of us, music-making is a much-loved hobby, but wouldn't it be great if you could give up your day job and do it full time?
This might sound fanciful, but if you broaden your ambitions and look beyond signing a record deal and having a hit record, there are money-making opportunities out there.
Composing jingles for adverts might not be what you had in mind when you first got into this, but wouldn't you rather do that than sit in an office all day?
We've canvassed opinion from a range of people who make their livings from music, and they've come up with the following advice for anyone who wants to do the same.
Lemonade Drinkers
The Rotters Club/Lemonade
Clarify your brief
Clients call the shots, so if you want repeat work (which you will!), then they need to get what they want. Clients are notoriously bad at telling you what they want, and can even be unwilling to tell you when they're unhappy. They just won't use you again!
Don't be a copyist
If you're doing a soundalike, don't make it too close to the original - just changing the key of the original riff won't do the trick. Instead, listen to the types of sounds used, the tempo, the processing, the style and the vibe. Capture those and you're there.
Commercial break
If you're producing music for commercials, try to make agency contacts. It's all very well having the best jingle for Corn Flakes, but Kellogs hire an agency to do this for them. If you become favoured by an agency, they can put you forward to other clients.
Herman Stephens
The Self/ Wavelength Studios
Stay on track
Check that your clients are getting what they want. Sometimes people come into the studio for the first time and they're so excited to record and hear themselves, they lose track of what they wanted. So I usually ask them to bring me an example of the type of sound they want.
Quality control
Don't cut corners. When you're working on your own stuff, you can get lazy about things, whether it's setting input levels properly or de-essing a vocal. But if somebody's paying you, make the effort. And you'll find that the more you do it, the less hassle it becomes - you'll even start doing your own stuff better, too.
Let's do lunch
The best way to meet prospective studio clients these days is out and about. If you're a recording engineer/ producer, this means going to loads of gigs and chatting to people. For dance music, it means going to clubs and chatting to the DJs. You'll soon find people looking for somewhere or somebody to record them.
Steve Stimpson
DJ/Promotions Director, Power Promotions
Bide your time
Don't sign up to the first online distributor you find. Some of them will have better contacts for your industry than others. Some might be able to get a foot in the door, some won't. It's all very well having your stuff on 100 download sites, but if it doesn't appeal to your core market, you'll lose sales
Start a label
Having your own label can make things much easier when it comes to licensing music to compilations and things like that, as it means that if somebody wants your music urgently for an ad or compilation, it's ready and available to license as soon as you can fill out your own paperwork.
Perfect timing
Get advice from people who know about things like promotions and release dates. Just because releasing tracks these days is cheaper doesn't mean you shouldn't take it just as seriously. For example, we tell our clients to promo at the same time as release, to avoid illegal downloads, and to release around payday, as that's when people buy!
Jon Carter
DJ/producer/band member
The right man for the job
Double-check that your accountant knows your industry. The rules are technically the same, whatever business you're in, but it can still be handy to have somebody who knows the nuances, knows how HMRC approaches your business, as well as any potential pitfalls.
Read the small-print
Don't just sign a contract without getting it checked. I'm not saying you should get your solicitor to scrutinise every one you ever see, especially not for a small snippet of one track to be used on the radio once. But until you have seen a few and know what to look out for, get somebody who's familiar with them to check it over.
Publish or be damned
If you're putting out a lot of music in any form whatsoever, get yourself a publisher. They take a cut, but they also only make money if you make money, so it's in their interests to make you as much money as possible. And if they're halfway decent, they'll have a lot of contacts to help you make them money!
Aaron Gilbert
Cicada/Flicker Music
Put in a good word
Get testimonials. It's all very well making your clients very happy, but unless you get them to put it in writing for you, nobody else knows. Get yourself a website and put your testimonials on show. It makes you look far more professional and is the best form of recommendation prospective clients can expect.
Variety is the spice of life
Be versatile. I play in a band and tour the world, I release dance tracks, I do remixes, I'm involved in a company called Flicker Music that generates everything from incidental music and soundalikes to reproduced samples for top ten hits, so the artists can avoid paying to clear samples.
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A group of Astoria friends are turning to Kickstarter to help them bring the heat.
Matthew Konchan, Joe Muscente and James Nestor are the creators behind the artisanal all-natural, low-sodium and gluten-free hot sauce called Chi-Cho Sauce.
For the past two years, the trio, who have backgrounds in finance and marketing, have spent hours combining and testing flavors until they came up with the "spicy and sweet" flavor, which creators said is "the best hot sauce you'll ever have."
"We wanted to do something different, something that isn't going to kill you," Konchan said. "It's not a novelty. It looks presentable."
After selling and giving away more than 1,000 bottles of the sauce for free at local markets, including the LIC Flea & Food, and receiving positive feedback, the Astoria residents started a Kickstarter campaign to help continue making the sauce and selling it online, as well as launch the product in stores and restaurants.
"We want something that is nice that you can put out on the table of a nice restaurant," Konchan said.
The goal of the campaign, which ends on Sept. 12, is $8,003 and the funds will go towards manufacturing, operating, distribution and marketing costs.
Chi-Cho Sauce — the name comes from a college friend's slang name — is created using local ingredients and cooked at a commercial kitchen in Flushing. Every bottle of the sauce is individually stamped with a batch number and "born on" date.
You can purchase a 6 oz. bottle of Chi-Cho Sauce for $9 on chichosauce.com and also find recipes and food pairings for the sauce.
"We want to maintain the brand," Konchan said. "A fun and young company."
To donate to the Kickstarter campaign, click here.
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California Screamin': 45 Grave and Vox Pop
Byron Coley, New York Rocker, September 1982
"All I can say is that everyone in Vox Pop is smarter than everyone in 45 Grave."
--Jeff Dahl, May '82
"I'm smarter than everyone in Vox Pop and 45 Grave put together."
--"Don Bolles", June '82
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Wild Mushroom Pate
Wild mushrooms have an earthy, musky flavor totally unlike their generic cousins, the white button mushroom. We like to make this pate up for large parties and serve it in a decorative crock with toasted baguette slices or, for a more formal presentation, it can be rolled into phyllo triangles, encased in puff pastry or piped into gougers.
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 shallots or 1 medium onion, minced
pinch of salt
12 ounces mixed wild mushrooms, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup vermouth or dry white wine
2 tablespoons soy sauce
10 ounces goat cheese
1/4 cup chopped fresh herbs such as parsley, thyme, marjoram, chives, and mint
1/2 cup walnuts, toasted
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Heat the oil in a large saute pan over medium heat. When the oil is hot add the shallot or onion with a pinch of salt and saute until they begin to look translucent, about 2 minutes. Add the mushrooms and saute until they begin to give off some liquid, about 3 or 4 minutes. Add the garlic and saute until the mushrooms are dry, about 4 minutes.
Add the vermouth or dry white wine along with the soy sauce. Cook until the pan is dry, about 2 minutes.
Transfer the mushrooms to the bowl of a food processor along with the goat cheese, herbs and walnuts. Process in short bursts just to coarsely chop and mix the ingredients. Leave it chunky.
Spoon the pate into a decorative bowl and serve immediately with thinly sliced and toasted French or rustic Italian bread. Keeps refrigerated for up to 3 days. Let rest at room temperature for 1 hour to warm up before serving cold from the refrigerator.


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Customer support startup Zendesk is unveiling Zendesk Voice, a cloud-based call center that integrates with the startup's popular help-desk platform. Launched in 2008, Zendesk offers a web-based, SaaS-delivered help desk/support ticketing application that gives companies a simple way to manage incoming support requests from end customers.
Powered by Twilio, Zendesk Voice is a VoIP system that adds a call center to customer support. Businesses can set up a phone number and have incoming calls available in the Zendesk interface. And similar to Google Voice, Zendesk Voice will transform voice conversations and messages into transcripts and are embedded into Zendesk tickets. Customers are also able to listen to their previous phone conversations through the system.
Currently, Zendesk Voice is available in the U.S. and Canada, with international availability late in 2011. Calls placed to the system are billed at 5 cents per minute, with no additional upfront costs.
To date, Zendesk has added more than 10,000 customers and offers both plans for small businesses and enterprise companies. To date, Zendesk has raised $26 million to date from Matrix Partners, Benchmark Capital and Charles River Ventures.


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There is much that is paradoxical in the figure of Paul. In his dual persona as Saul / Paul, he is renowned as both a one-time feared persecutor of Christians, and as the greatest of all the early missionaries, who spread the word far beyond it s original geographic compounds, and author of by far the most influential Christian texts outside the Gospels themselves. In the same way, as the author of the most infamous New Testament clobber texts, he is widely regarded as strongly condemning homoerotic relationships – and yet Paul Halsall lists him in his Calendar of LGBT Saints:
There is considerable debate over those anti-gay "proof -texts", but whatever the conclusions, there is much, as Anglican Bishop of Newark John Spong has pointed out, which leads one to suspect Paul might have been "queer" in some way. The fact he was never married, unusual for a Jew of his time, his companionship with a series of younger men, especially St. Timothy, his mention of an unnamed "thorn in the flesh". and, possibly, his disdain for some types of exploitative homosexual relationship in his period, all raise questions, questions which cannot be answered it must be admitted, about his sexuality.
First, let us dismiss the idea that Paul's writing is anti-gay: it isn't, and further, much of his message is precisely the opposite, arguing for full inclusion of all. For a counter to the standard view of Paul as anti-gay, anti-sex, see Reidulf Molvaer, Sex & St. Paul the Realist
St. Paul was, in many ways, an ascetic and happy to be so, but he refused to make asceticism a general model or ideal for Christians – most people cannot live by such principles, especially in the area of sex. In the seventh chapter of his first letter to Corinth, he rejects any appeal for his support of sexual abstinence as ethically superior to active sexual relations. He sets limits, but does not limit legitimate sexual relations to marriage. In his day, it was commonly believed that homosexual practice, more easily than heterosexual relations, could bring people into harmony with the unchangeable nature of God. This Paul strongly rejects in the first chapter of his letter to Rome. Otherwise he does not write about "natural" homosexuality. In fact, it is a logical inference from the principles he sets forth in his letter to Corinth that loving, lasting homosexual relations are ethically as valid as heterosexual relations. Dr. Molvaer maintains that insight into contemporary ideologies can be a help to understanding what the New Testament says about these matters. Today, as in the early Church, extraneous influences in these areas can easily distort genuine Christian moral concerns as they are stated by Christ and St. Paul.
Then, consider his person. Astonishingly little is known for certain of Paul the man, but Bishop Spong is not the only one to have suggested that Paul may have had some close same-sex relationships of his own. Gay Catholic blogger Jeremiah Bartram (Gospel for Gays), who recently spent time on a pilgrimage "in the footsteps of St Paul" has reflected deeply on the life and writign of Paul, and concluded that on balance, the suggestion is sound ("Gay Paul").
In the absence of hard evidence, personally I am happy to leave this discussion to others with greater scholarship and expertise behind them. My interest in the queer saints is in the lessons they hold for us today, and here I think there is one clear message, which lies in the best known story of al about Paul, his conversion on the road to Damascus. This has entered language as a "Damascene Conversion", and therein lies hope. For if Saul, the renowned persecutor of Christians, could undergo such a complete change of heart and become instead active as the most famous proselytizer, so too is there hope for the religion -based persecutors of sexual minorities today. Not only is there hope, but there is already abundant evidence from the very many Christians in the modern world who have experienced just such Damascene conversions, going from direct, outright condemnation of same sex relationships, to actively advocating full inclusion in church. These changes of heart, usually coming after intensive study of Scripture and extensive discussions with gay and lesbian church members, have already been responsible for changes of policy in several denominations, and a more welcoming atmosphere in many local congregations. This process will continue.
For those Catholics who like to pray to the saints, you can freely include St Paul in you prayers. This is not because he was queer (although he may have been), but because his own conversion experience provides a useful model for all those modern day conversions that we need among the bigots who use religion as a cloak for prejudice and discrimination.


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A few things have caught my eye lately.
This video about Arabs' views of Jews is revealing; not only is the dialogue 'Borat-like' (except unfortunately this is real) but it even has a Borat look-alike presenter.
This interesting compilation video of Islamic indoctrination and abuse 0f children has some especially interesting Iranian cartoons for children. Whereas in 'western' goodies versus baddies cartoons the baddies die and the goodies live it is interesting to note that here not only do all the 'baddies' (Israelis) get killed but so too do all the 'goodies' (Palestinians). The message is quite clear: the goal of every Islamic child must be to die as a suicide bomber or in Jihad. Only by dying in this way do you go to heaven. The subtext presumably also is that Iran would be more than happy to sacrifice every one its citizens (and indeed every Muslim in the world) if it meant killing all the Jews. Not very comforting given their nuclear ambitions.
This article in the Catholic Herald suggests that our Islamic friends are prepared to be just as barbaric to Christians as they are to Jews - this reports on a baby being kidnapped, beheaded, and returned to its mother roasted and served on a bed of rice. Nice people.
This brilliant 'chat show' dialogue. It's a bit slow to load but bear with it.
This article by Noah Pollack about Lebanon is more upbeat but note his description of his flight from Amman to Beirut. The Jordanians are supposed to be 'peace partners' of Israel and they have full diplomatic relations but it appears that in practice they refuse to acknowledge that Israel even exists.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Jabbed, prodded and poked repeatedly about a topic that never really goes away, Billy Payne wouldn't budge.
Faced with questions at his annual news conference about when a woman would become a member at the home of the Masters, the Augusta National chairman gave different variations of the same answer: That's our business, not yours.
The topic was on the front burner again Wednesday, the eve of the year's first major, because one of the club's longtime sponsors, IBM, has a new CEO — Virginia Rometty. The last four CEOs at IBM, all male, have been invited to be members.
Payne's polite-but-firm responses were in direct contrast to those of his predecessor, Hootie Johnson. Faced with the issue 10 years ago, Johnson famously declared female membership would come on the club's timetable and "not at the point of a bayonet."
"As has been the case whenever that question is asked, all issues of membership have been and are subject to private deliberations of the members," Payne said when the inevitable question was asked for the first time Wednesday. "That statement remains accurate and that remains my statement."
Asked to expand on his refusal to comment, he gave two reasons: "Number One, we don't talk about our private deliberations. Number Two, we especially don't talk about them when a named candidate is part of the question."
He did not say whether Rometty was that specific "named candidate."
The issue first came up in 2002, when Martha Burk, then the chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, campaigned for Augusta National to end its all-male membership and threatened to boycott companies whose executives belonged to the club. Johnson responded by cutting loose corporate backers and the Masters was televised without commercials for the next two years. A planned protest before the 2003 Masters was a dud and the issue slowly receded.
When Payne replaced Johnson as chairman of the club and of the Masters tournament in 2006, he said there was "no specific timetable" for admitting women. The question was raised at the 2007 and 2010 Masters. Both times, Payne said membership issues were private.
Today, in addition to IBM, Exxon Mobile and AT&T are also sponsors of the Masters.
Contacted after Payne's news conference, Burk said she didn't pay attention to it and had no plans to protest this year because "we saw that didn't work."
It's not her job to pressure the club, she said, but rather, IBM's.
"If they're willing to diminish the company's image, and to discredit in a certain way their new CEO, that's a loud and clear statement," Burk said. "I would regret to see that very much. I think it's astounding that one of the largest corporations in the world is having their strings pulled by a bunch of old guys in Augusta."
Rometty, who took over as CEO on Jan. 1, is said to play golf sparingly. She is more passionate about scuba diving.
IBM spokesman Ed Barbini said the company had no comment.
Because the secrecy level at Augusta National is so high, there could already be a female member that nobody knows about. Though members are visible during the Masters because of their iconic green jackets, not every member is in attendance this week.
Several reporters, trying to get a clearer picture of what goes on inside these gates, came at the question from different angles. Each time Payne graciously swatted them away, preferring to talk about the weather, developments of the club's digital platforms and other issues surrounding the tournament that starts Thursday.
Among the more awkward exchanges came when two reporters teamed up and accused Payne of sending a mixed message. Payne repeatedly talked about the club's efforts to grow the game, yet the possible absence of a female member creates the perception that half the population is excluded.
"That is a membership issue that I'm not going to ... thank you for your," he said, being interrupted with another question along the same lines. Payne then interrupted that reporter: "Thank you for your question, sir."
Another reporter, taking a page from the interviews with Johnson from 2003, tried to frame it not as a membership issue, but as a kitchen-table topic: What would you tell your granddaughters?
"Well, my conversations with my granddaughters are personal," Payne said.
Asked whether it takes away from the tournament when the issue of female membership surfaces in the lead-up, Payne also offered very little.
"There's certainly a difference of opinion on that," he said. "I don't think I've formed an opinion on that. But certainly people have different opinions on that subject."
Rejected time and again, the reporters then moved to a safer topic: The weather.
Payne talked about the 1.4 inches of rain that came overnight, toppling trees and washing out bunkers. But he reassured people that the course would be fine by tee time Thursday morning, when Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player hit their ceremonial tee shots.
AP Golf Writer Doug Ferguson contributed to this report.


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Our site (and, I'd imagine, many other sites with large user bases) has decided against having the user-groups feature of unix available to the users, due to perceived administrative, technical and performance headaches. A tool such as CVS with features that provide group-like functionality would be a huge help. 62. Consider using revision controlled files and directories to handle the new module format -- consider a cvs command front-end to add/delete/modify module contents, maybe. 63. The "import" and vendor support commands (co -j) need to be documented better. 66. Length of the CVS temporary files must be limited to 14 characters for System-V stupid support. As well as the length on the CVS.adm files. 72. Consider re-design of the module -t options to use the file system more intuitively. 73. Consider an option (in .cvsrc?) to automatically add files that are new and specified to commit. 79. Might be nice to have some sort of interface to Sun's Translucent (?) File System and tagged revisions. 82. Maybe the import stuff should allow an arbitrary revision to be specified. 84. Improve the documentation about administration of the repository and how to add/remove files and the use of symbolic links. 85. Make symbolic links a valid thing to put under version control. Perhaps use one of the tag fields in the RCS file? Note that we can only support symlinks that are relative and within the scope of the sources being controlled. 93. Need to think hard about release and development environments. Think about execsets as well. 98. If diff3 bombs out (too many differences) cvs then thinks that the file has been updated and is OK to be commited even though the file has not yet been merged. 100. Checked out files should have revision control support. Maybe. 102. Perhaps directory modes should be propagated on all import check-ins. Not necessarily uid/gid changes. 103. setuid/setgid on files is suspect. 104. cvs should recover nicely on unreadable files/directories. 105. cvs should have administrative tools to allow for changing permissions and modes and what not. In particular, this would make cvs a more attractive alternative to rdist. 107. It should be possible to specify a list of symbolic revisions to checkout such that the list is processed in reverse order looking for matches within the RCS file for the symbolic revision. If there is not a match, the next symbolic rev on the list is checked, and so on, until all symbolic revs are exhausted. This would allow one to, say, checkout "4.0" + "4.0.3" + "4.0.3Patch1" + "4.0.3Patch2" to get the most recent 4.x stuff. This is usually handled by just specifying the right release_tag, but most people forget to do this. 108. If someone creates a whole new directory (i.e. adds it to the cvs repository) and you happen to have a directory in your source farm by the same name, when you do your cvs update -d it SILENTLY does *nothing* to that directory. At least, I think it was silent; certainly, it did *not* abort my cvs update, as it would have if the same thing had happened with a file instead of a directory. 109. I had gotten pieces of the sys directory in the past but not a complete tree. I just did something like: cvs get * Where sys was in * and got the message cvs get: Executing 'sys/tools/make_links sys' sh: sys/tools/make_links: not found I suspect this is because I didn't have the file in question, but I do not understand how I could fool it into getting an error. I think a later cvs get sys seemed to work so perhaps something is amiss in handling multiple arguments to cvs get? 119. 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Some sites might want CVS to fsync() the RCS ,v file to protect against nasty hardware errors. There is a slight performance hit with doing so, though, so it should be configurable in the .cvsrc file. Also, along with this, we should look at the places where CVS itself could be a little more synchronous so as not to lose data. [[ I've done some of this, but it could use much more ]] 138. Some people have suggested that CVS use a VPATH-like environment variable to limit the amount of sources that need to be duplicated for sites with giant source trees and no disk space. 141. Import should accept modules as its directory argument. If we're going to implement this, we should think hard about how modules might be expanded and how to handle those cases. 143. Update the documentation to show that the source repository is something far away from the files that you work on. 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(probably best is to have CVS do the non-interactive part and tell the user about where the files are (.#foo.c.working and .#foo.c.1.5 or whatever), so they can do the interactive part at that point -kingdon, June 1996). 149. Maybe there should be an option to cvs admin that allows a user to change the Repository/Root file with some degree of error checking? Something like "cvs admin reposmv /old/path /new/pretty/path". Before it does the replace it check to see that the files /new/pretty/path/


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By SAMMY FRETWELL | The State of Columbia
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Four red wolf pups have been drawing smiles at a South Carolina nature preserve.
The baby wolves were born earlier this month at the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge as part of a federal captive breeding program.
Federal officials said the wolves are the first born at the refuge's Sewee Visitors' Center - which is obvious from the reactions of wildlife managers and refuge boosters.
"We are taking pictures like first-time parents around here," said Grace Gasper, director of the nonprofit Sewee Association, which supports the Charleston County refuge.
For now, the pups are being kept out of public view "to give the new mom some quiet time to adjust with her pups," according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Cape Romain Facebook page. The page has drawn hundreds of enthusiastic responses from the public.
The Sewee Center, a visitor's complex for the refuge on U.S. 17 near Awendaw, has had a few red wolves on public display since the 1990s. But in 2013, the center received a breeding pair from the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. Refuge managers in South Carolina were hopeful they would see pups. One of five pups born Tuesday and displayed in photos released by the wildlife service did not survive, according to one report.
The births are significant because red wolves are among the most endangered animals in the United States, with no more than a few hundred left.
Native to the Southeast, red wolves were viewed as pests and hunted to near extinction after Europeans settled the region. Habitat loss also has affected populations.
Today, many red wolves are found in captivity, although some still are in the wild. Those re-introduced to the wild - done as part of a federal program to restore populations - are in danger of breeding with coyotes, which further threatens their future.
The red wolf is a smaller cousin of the gray wolf found in the western United States. The red wolf gets its name from the rusty coloring of its head, ears and legs. A red wolf typically weighs 45 to 80 pounds.
Cape Romain has a long history with red wolves.
For 18 years, the government kept a pair of red wolves on the wildlife refuge's Bull's Island as part of the national breeding program.
When breeding pairs reproduced, the pups would stay on the island with their parents to learn hunting and survival skills. During that time, 26 pups were born at Bull's Island. After reaching a certain age, the growing wolves would be transferred to the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern North Carolina.
In 2005, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shut down the Bull's Island program at the South Carolina refuge after deciding that populations had reached an acceptable level at the North Carolina refuge. But it continued to keep wolves in enclosures at the Sewee Center, which according to the Fish and Wildlife Service had never had a pup born there.
The last time pups were born on Bull's Island, outside of the visitors' center, was in 2004, the service said.
Information from: The State, www.thestate.com


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Eastbourne is a town on the south coast of East Sussex, between Brighton and Hastings. Eastbourne's name comes from 'Burne' the stream which ran through the Old Town of Eastbourne. All that can be seen of the Burne, or Bourne is the small pond in Motcombe Gardens. The source is guarded by a statue of Neptune.
The ancient parish church is dedicated to St Mary, but with the rapid growth of the town in the 19th century, many new parishes were created.
During the middle ages the area prospered as a major sheep farming and fishing area. In 1555 East Bourne was sold to three wealthy Sussex families - Burton, Gildredge and Selwyn.
In 1556 Bourne Place (now Compton Place) was built, and still stands as a private ladies training college today.
Eastbourne's Redoubt Museum is housed within a fortress built in 1805 to supplement the firepower of the Martello towers. Tower No. 73, The Wish Tower, still stands overlooking the sea towards the west of Eastbourne's seafront.
No shops or other commercial buildings have been permitted on the seafront so the elegant 3-mile promenade is lined with fine buildings, such as The Grand, Queen's and Burlington hotels, which were built in the 1870's.
Nearby is the famous Beachy Head.
The Lamb Inn is located just to the east of St Mary's church and the sign claims it dates from 1180.
Eastbourne, All Saints, Eastbourne, All Souls, Eastbourne, Christ Church, Eastbourne, Holy Trinity, Eastbourne, St Elisabeth, Eastbourne, St John, Meads, Eastbourne, St Michael, Eastbourne, St Richard, Eastbourne, St Saviour & St Peter.
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Rodney Stuart "Rod" Johnstone
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Glen Ridge, New Jersey
About Performance
The Sailboat Designs of Rod Johnstone by Year — SailboatData.com "The Brothers Johnstone Launched a Success Story with Their J Boats" — Sports Illustrated "A Brand of Brothers" — Sail Magazine "J Boats: Sailing to Success – A Family Affair" — Boats.com "An Evening with Rod Johnstone: Sailing to Success" — WindCheck Magazine "Growing the Sport with 'Perfect Sailboats'" — sailingscuttlebutt.com Video: Rod Johnstone on 40 Years of J/Boats — talk at Mystic River Mudheads CBS News Story: "Living Stronger: Rod Johnstone's Passion Keeps Him Sailing at 80"
Rod Johnstone grew up sailing a homebuilt Lightning, then he raced Thistles, 505s, and 470s. He says they all had an influence on the lines he drew for the 24-footer that became J/Boats' initial offering (J/24). But perhaps the biggest influence was a neighbor's 30 square meter he was familiar with (LOA 43' 6"; LWL 28' 6"; BEAM 7' 2"). In the mid-1970s, he took that boat to watch a New York Yacht Club reaching start in strong wind, sailing to leeward of four 12 Meters ( Vim , Columbia , Easterner , and Weatherly ) to observe their performance. "We just had our skinny little main up," Johnstone recalls. "We were taking notes, and after 20 minutes, we realized we were keeping up with the 12s, doing 9 or 10 knots. We were planing! In those days, there were very few larger boats that planed." He went back to work on the 24-footer he was drawing, aiming for a keelboat that would plane and be stable. "Planing doesn't rely on how fat the stern is," Johnstone says. "It's how flat the hull is ahead of the keel. The J/24 has dead rise, but heel it 15 degrees and it's flat." He had additional motivation for working on the 24-footer. During one very hot, light wind 470 regatta Johnstone sailed with his wife, Lucia, as crew, she lost her balance at one point. "I can't recall what I said, but the word `elephant' was used," Johnstone says. "At the awards, she was smiling, but muttered she'd never set foot on the 470 again." Rod shared the emphasis on performance with his brother Bob. "But a sailboat is a want, not a need," he says. "Performance isn't just speed, it's about a boat doing what you want when you want to do it. Balance is key. It pleases me to know an average person can sail a boat of mine and get the same kick out of it that I do. A lot of non-racers sail our boats." Rod's son Alan has been chief designer at J/Boats since 2013. Sometimes they independently tackle a new design, then superimpose them on the CAD machine. The difference is often measured in millimeters. "Either I brainwashed him, or he brainwashed me," Rod Johnstone says.
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Integral solution for laminar and turbulent natural convection
From Thermal-FluidsPedia
Multiplying the continuity equation:
by u and adding the resulting equation to the momentum equation
Integrating the above equation with respect to y in the interval of (0, Y), where Y is greater than both δ and δt, one obtains:
By following a similar procedure, the integral energy equation can be obtained as follows
In order to obtain the solution of a natural convection problem, the appropriate velocity and temperature profiles must be utilized together with the integral equations (1) and (2). The velocity and temperature profiles depend on the thicknesses of the momentum and thermal boundary layers, which in turn depend on the Prandtl number. Assuming the velocity profile is the third degree polynomial function of y in the boundary layer and using the boundary conditions to determine the unspecified constant, the velocity profile becomes (see Problem 6.8):
where U is a characteristic velocity that is a function of x. Similarly, the temperature profile can be obtained by assuming a second degree polynomial function and the result is (see Problem 6.9):
The following analysis will be based on the assumption that the momentum and thermal boundary layers have the same thickness, i.e. δt = δ. Substituting the velocity and temperature profiles into the integral form of the momentum equation (1) and energy equation (2) yields:
At the leading edge of the vertical plate, the boundary layer thickness is zero and the characteristic velocity U is also zero:
which are the initial conditions of eqs. (5) and (6). It is expected that as x increases, both U and δ should increase. Let us assume that they are functions of x such that
Substituting eq. (8) into eqs. (5) and (6), one obtains the following:
The above two relations can be true for all x only if the indices of x for all terms in the same equation are the same, i.e. when the following equations hold:
which are satisfied only if m = 1 / 2 and n = 1 / 4. This suggests that and ; this is in agreement with the result of the scaling analysis. Substituting back the values of m and n into eqs. (9) and (10), one obtains
Solving for C1 and C2 from the above two equations yields:
The boundary layer thickness therefore becomes:
The local heat transfer coefficient at the surface of the vertical plate can be obtained from eq. from Governing Equations for Natural Convection:
The local Nusselt number is:
Substituting eq. (11) into the above expression yields:
Figure 1 shows the comparison between the integral solution, eq. (12), and the similarity solution, eq. from Similarity Solution for Natural Convection on a Vertical Surface. It can be seen that the integral solution under predicts the local Nusselt number for low Prandtl number but over predicts
the local Nusselt number for high Prandtl number. At Pr = 10 − 4, the integral solution yields , which is 13% lower than the value of 0.059 obtained from the similarity solution. At Pr = 0.72, which is the Prandtl number for air, the result obtained by the integral solution () is 6.8% higher than the similarity solution. It can also be seen that the agreement between the integral and similarity solutions is the best at high Prandtl number. When Pr = 104, the difference between the integral and similarity solution is only 1.5%.
The above discussion is limited to the case where the surface temperature of the vertical plate is uniform. For the case where the surface heat flux of the flat plate is uniform, an integral solution can be performed to obtain the following results (see Problem 6.11):
is the modified Rayleigh number based on the heat flux.
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Turbulent Flow
For small temperature difference between the heated wall and bulk fluid and short vertical plate, the natural convection is laminar and the above similarity and integral solutions are valid. Once the Rayleigh number exceeds a critical value, the natural convection will become turbulent and the above results will be invalid. It was believed that the transition from laminar to turbulent occurs at Rax˜109 until Bejan and Lage (1990) showed that for a wide range of Prandtl number () the criterion for transition from laminar to turbulent is actually Grx˜109. Alternatively, one can say that the transition takes place at . Thus, the critical Rayleigh number for low-Prandtl number fluid is less than 109. For high-Prandtl number fluid, on the other hand, the critical Rayleigh number is higher than 109.
The advantage of the integral solution is that it also works for turbulent flow. The integral momentum and energy equations (6.87) and (6.88) are applicable
if all terms are time-averaged as should be used for turbulent flows. Using the definition of shear stress and heat flux, eqs. (1) and (2) can be respectively modified as
The velocity and temperature profiles in the boundary layer must be correctly determined so as to reflect the behavior of the turbulent boundary layer. A velocity profile constructed as follows gives a good description of the velocity distribution in natural convection for turbulent flow over a vertical flat plate (Eckert and Jackson, 1951):
where U is a characteristic velocity for the near wall. Equation (17) satisfies all of the velocity boundary conditions. It is further assumed that the velocity and temperature boundary layer thicknesses are the same (δt = δ) and the temperature profile is:
which yields T = Tw at y = 0 and . It should be pointed out that eqs. (17) and (18) are valid only for y < δ. For large y, one has u = 0 and .
Substituting eqs. (17) and (18) into eqs. (15) and (16), the integral equations become:
where η = y / δ. Evaluating the integrals in the above two equations yields:
At this point, we have two equations and four unknowns (U, δ, q''w, τw). Thus, assumptions have to be made regarding the forms of the expressions for τw and q''w. It is generally assumed that the flow near the wall in a turbulent natural convective boundary layer is similar to that of a turbulent forced convection so that the expressions for τw and q''w derived for forced convection can be applied:
Substituting the above expressions into the integral momentum and energy equations, one obtains:
The boundary layer can be assumed to be turbulent from the leading edge of the surface, so the solutions to the above equations should be of the following form:
Substituting the above equations into eqs. (23) and (24), one finds that the values which satisfy these two equations are m = 0.5 and n = 0.7(Problem 6.13). By following the procedure similar to the case of laminar natural convection, the local Nusselt number can then be obtained:
which suggests that the local heat transfer coefficient is proportional to x0.2. The average Nusselt number for the entire vertical plate,
Empirical Correlation
The above analyses for laminar and turbulent natural convection over a vertical flat plate suggest that the average Nusselt number can be expressed in the following format:
which is confirmed by experimental studies. For laminar flow (), one can utilize the values of C = 0.59 and n = 1 / 4. For turbulent flow (GrL > 109), C = 0.1 and n = 1 / 3 can be used (McAdams, 1954; Warner and Arpaci, 1968).
Churchill and Chu (1975) studied numerous sets of experimental data and recommended the following correlation:
which covers all Prandtl number and Grashof number between 0.1 and 1012. For the case of laminar convection (Grx < 109), the following correlation yields better results:
Practically, one can use eq. (30) for laminar natural convection and eq. (29) for turbulent natural convection. These two correlations can provide better accuracy than the earlier correlation in simpler form. For the case of constant heat flux where the surface temperature, Tw, increases with increasing x, Churchill and Chu (1975) suggested that eq. (29) is still valid provided the constant 0.492 is changed to 0.437, and and RaL must be defined using the averaged wall temperature of the vertical plate.
Bejan, A, and Lage, J.L., 1990, "Prandtl Number Effect on the Transition in Natural Convection along a Vertical Surface," ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 112, pp. 787 – 790.
Churchill, S. W., and Chu, H.H.S., 1975, "Correlating Equations for Laminar and Turbulent Free Convection from a Vertical Plate," Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 18, pp. 1323-1329.
Eckert, E.R.G., and Jackson, T.W., 1951, "Analysis of Turbulent Free Convection Boundary Layer on a Flat Plate," NACA Report 1015.
McAdams, W.H., 1954, Heat Transmission, 3rd Ed. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Warner, C.Y., and Arpaci, V.S., 1968, "An Experimental Investigation of Turbulent Natural Convection in Air at Low Pressure along a Vertical Heated Flat Plate," Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 11, pp. 397-406.


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Glendale, AZ – The Phoenix Coyotes retained unrestricted free agent forward Andy Miele Tuesday with a one-year contract.
"We are pleased to sign Andy to a one-year contract," Coyotes GM Don Maloney said. "For the past two seasons, Andy has led the Pirates in scoring and been a very effective player for us. We look forward to him continuing his development this season."
The 25-year-old has appeared in eight games for Phoenix over the last two seasons without registering a point, but he has racked up 35 goals and 107 points over 139 contests for Portland in the American Hockey League.
A 2011 Hobey Baker winner with Miami-Ohio, Miele was selected as college hockey's top player thanks to leading the NCAA in scoring in 2010-11. He posted 24 goals and 47 assists in just 39 games.